What happens when international cooperation stops responding to the realities of territories and reproduces the very inequalities it seeks to transform?
In a context of global crisis, budget cuts, and growing concentration of power in decision-making, the traditional model of cooperation is showing its limits. Assistentialist, vertical logics — often disconnected from territories — continue to shape how priorities are defined, resources are distributed, and solutions are built.
Against this backdrop, the Permanent Forum for the Decolonization of Cooperation drives the collective construction of a new paradigm of solidarity-based cooperation, grounded in justice, autonomy, care, and the redistribution of power.
Vozes accompanies this process through methodological design, facilitation, and the systematization of a participatory, global process. Through consultations across different regions, interviews with key actors, and co-creation spaces, the aim is to produce a new conceptualization — while also strengthening alliances, gathering diverse knowledges, and building collective legitimacy.
The result is a conceptual and political framework that contributes to contesting meanings and transforming the practices of international cooperation — betting on forms that are more horizontal, solidarity-based, and rooted in territories.